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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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Reusing the Starship spacecraft would require the vessel to withstand the extreme heat of reentering Earth's atmosphere and then return to service without extensive refurbishment.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

The reason for this focus is that extreme positive or negative performance over the trailing month often reverses itself in the subsequent one.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Despite its exceptional geographic size, the 2026 ozone hole did not experience the same extreme levels of ozone loss observed during record-breaking events 10 or 20 years earlier.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

In neighbouring Somalia, the country's disaster management agency has warned that 1.2 million people are at risk of displacement caused by extreme weather – including the risk of both floods and drought.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

“But, Alexandra, I’ll be fine in a few weeks. In fact, this all seems a little extreme to me.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

It will disenfranchise you to the extremes, no matter how brilliant you are, and you’ll be so dispossessed that you actually lose sight of your own significance, your own talent and impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Researchers believe ticks protect themselves from temperature extremes by retreating into deeper soil layers or hiding beneath fallen leaves, where conditions are less severe than at the surface.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

But now an increasing number of nations are facing the reality of having to do that alongside adapting to new weather extremes as the planet warms.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Higher prices caused by weather extremes are getting “more frequent … and extreme,” said Barchart’s Newsom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

By now she was reverting to mean, mad Miss Katastrophe and our minds were at polar extremes.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

He professed to like my supernatural beliefs much better than the anti-supernatural views of the extremer portion of his brethren.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

We who have no vocation for the extremer ranges of sanctity will surely be let off at the last day if our humility, asceticism, and devoutness prove of a less convulsive sort.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

We still stand on the ground that the English government is founded in usurpation, but we can dispose of all objections by proving the extremer case.

From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney

Like them, his revolt against Romanism took an extremer form than Lutheranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England soon after Elizabeth's accession.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

They spent the night there in extremest misery, sodden through and through, chilled to the bone, faint with hunger.

From White Fire by John Oxenham


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